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Monroe by Mailer and Stern "This book is really two books. It is a biography, and it is also a pictorial retrospective of an actress whose greatest love affair was conceivably with the camera." Norman Mailer wrote these words in his 1973 biography, Marilyn . Now TASCHEN has…

Written in 1851 by one of America''s most influential thinkers, "Walking, or the Wild" was a lecture Henry David Thoreau delivered frequently throughout the 1850s. It is a treatise inspired by the author''s habit of working in the mornings and devoting the afternoons to local explorations,…

The Complete Letters of Henry James fills a crucial gap in modern literary studies by presenting in a scholarly edition the complete letters of one of the great novelists and letter writers of the English language. Comprising more than ten thousand letters reflecting on a remarkably wide range of…

The Past Is Not Dead is a collection of twenty-one literary and historical essays that will mark the 50th anniversary of the Southern Quarterly , one of the oldest scholarly journals (founded in 1962) dedicated to southern studies. Like its companion volume, Personal Souths , The Past Is Not Dead…

This collection of essays by experts in Renaissance and Gothic studies tracks the lines of connection between Gothic sensibilities and the discursive network of the Renaissance. The texts covered encompass poetry, epic narratives, ghost stories, prose dialogues, political pamphlets and…

Name: Penguin Underground Lines Vital statistics: Twelve books, one for each Underground line, to celebrate the Tube''s 150th anniversary Height: when all twelve are stacked up: 47.6 inches Idea for series: Penguin asked twelve people to tell their tale of the city in 15,000 words (or in one case,…

The Complete Letters of Henry James fills a crucial gap in modern literary studies by presenting in a scholarly edition the complete letters of one of the great novelists and letter writers of the English language. Comprising more than ten thousand letters reflecting on a remarkably wide range of…